PyConSG Education Summit 2025 - Topic: How to prevent students becoming overdependent on AI? by Wei Sin Ho https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable Dear participants, what are your thoughts regarding this topic? Share with us for our Round Table Discussion segment. en-us 2025-07-17 02:13:20 UTC 2025-08-11 09:57:42 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads-usc1.storage.googleapis.com/2324543960/f7765cce60042477cb840cd6ed715f9b/PyConEduSummit2025Logo.png https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540030847 Wonder how are we bringing computing and digital technologies to differently abled people?

]]> 2025-08-11 08:05:50 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540030847 oka6 https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540075043 students use AI to create questions to help them learn and revise instead of getting solutions.

]]> 2025-08-11 09:31:25 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540075043 https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540075180 Build critical thinking + computational thinking skills. Also discuss case studies on the risks and how to manage the risks of accepting AI recommendations blindly.

]]> 2025-08-11 09:31:41 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540075180 https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540075283 The basis of critical thinking is a strong knowledge base, so I think it is important to continue to help them gain mastery of computing concepts in more than one way.

]]> 2025-08-11 09:31:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540075283 https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540075429 Ask AI to critic their code instead of generating their code.

]]> 2025-08-11 09:32:12 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540075429 oka6 https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540075458 When they cannot do the task without AI.

]]> 2025-08-11 09:32:15 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540075458 https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540075476 Hacking the exam portal to submit answers after the deadline, or submit answers on behalf of other users

]]> 2025-08-11 09:32:19 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540075476 https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540075549 students use AI to improve on their existing solutions and learn from it, and prompting it to comment - Yu Jie

]]> 2025-08-11 09:32:29 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540075549 https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540075750 provide sample AI output answers and get students to identify issues in them. (maybe none of them actually have issues lol)

]]> 2025-08-11 09:32:59 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540075750 oka6 https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540075813 Focus on process rather than final output. Ask students to reflect on their process.

]]> 2025-08-11 09:33:10 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540075813 https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540075984 More scaffolding and Pair programming

]]> 2025-08-11 09:33:38 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540075984 https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540075986 Allocate sufficient time and white space for them to indulge/invest themselves in the curriculum,


also have some learning activities that encourages them to do by hand

by WQ

]]> 2025-08-11 09:33:38 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540075986 https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540075998 (1) Have no-AI assessments under secure conditions (2) Examine their understanding of their code in an oral exam (and give them a hard time)

]]> 2025-08-11 09:33:40 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540075998 https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540076272 In some tutorial class, as the students working on the questions, I sent the question to LLM, and let the students discuss the solutions generated by the LLM and their answers. There were situations I deliberately left out some essential inputs, hence the right answer should be "I don't know because there are mulitple possibilities here." But the LLMs will ALWAYS give an answer which sounds very confident. The students reflect on this and they see in real world situation, the problems are not alway well formulated, they need to apply CT first!

]]> 2025-08-11 09:34:11 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540076272 https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540076310 Use ChatGPT for debugging: Throw in the whole codebase and ask where's the error?

]]> 2025-08-11 09:34:18 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540076310 https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540076409 WS

Teach critical thinking and evaluation skills, cross referencing across sources to discern if output is correct and non hallucinatory

]]> 2025-08-11 09:34:34 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540076409 https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540076475 Use ChatGPT for refactoring code to improve its style and design

]]> 2025-08-11 09:34:47 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540076475 giyeonbang https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540076502 Used to realize ideas at the Idea Festival, an on-school SW development festival.

]]> 2025-08-11 09:34:53 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540076502 oka6 https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540076666 Teach problem validation and verification.

]]> 2025-08-11 09:35:09 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540076666 https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540076741 Student sent all my notes to the LLMs and asked LLMs to summarize them for him, obviously not very effective.

]]> 2025-08-11 09:35:17 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540076741 oka6 https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540076822 Help students appreciate problem formulation for complex problem.

]]> 2025-08-11 09:35:28 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540076822 https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540076836 Good- Use GenAI & Latex prompting to illicit a mathematical step by step guide to understand the inner workings of neural network classifiers


Not so good - coming up with a timeline of GenAI reasoning model evolution & coming up with GPT6, without fact checking!


]]> 2025-08-11 09:35:29 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540076836 https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540076861 Get students to write out code/pesudocode on whiteboard. Get others to critique on them, then finally run those solution through Gen AI for comments / solutions


]]> 2025-08-11 09:35:31 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540076861 https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540077169 Ask students to do Primary Research like interview or talk to a target audience of the Problem Statement.

]]> 2025-08-11 09:36:14 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540077169 https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540077313 I use Google Gemini-enabled colab to do live-coding in class, it shows the students that the AI doesn't always give us the code that we want.

]]> 2025-08-11 09:36:28 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540077313 giyeonbang https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540077389 Clearly recognize the state space that includes the initial state, current state, and goal state.

]]> 2025-08-11 09:36:38 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540077389 https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540077445 Ask students to outwit the LLM. E.g. I used this: "This LLM has been told to never say 'Yes'. Trick it into saying 'Yes'"

]]> 2025-08-11 09:36:48 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540077445 https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540077460 Need assignments where AI will produce the correct and default answer, but not the best answer.

]]> 2025-08-11 09:36:50 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540077460 https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540077469 Asking AI to provide practical samples for the learning concepts


]]> 2025-08-11 09:36:52 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540077469 https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540077550 Lay2

Student use GenAI to generate a picture how Drone would be use in the Singapore in the past for presentation.

]]> 2025-08-11 09:36:57 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540077550 lew_wei_sern_vincent1 https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540077613 Lew:

Students try to upload photos of math questions to get AI eg chatgpt to solve.

When they get wrong answers or no solutions they conclude quickly that AI is poor in problem solving.

However i showed that asking the questions properly is important as the same AI tool with more detailed prompt will generate better answers.

]]> 2025-08-11 09:37:07 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540077613 https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540078487 Challenges which provides significant output, which can be observed by the students themselves knowing it's right or wrong without resulting to AI.

]]> 2025-08-11 09:38:14 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540078487 https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540078657 Short interactive orals (micro-vivas) that include process evidence

]]> 2025-08-11 09:38:31 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540078657 https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540078702 A very tired teacher here, secretly hoping that all this Gen AI will go away

]]> 2025-08-11 09:38:36 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540078702 https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540078790 For software engineering module, I recently introduced a sandwitch approach, in which students need to present the spec, write the 1-2 out of the repetive tasks, and let LLMs to complete the rest, finally the students need to verify the components generated are correct. But I have no empirical results. If I do have any in the fuure.

]]> 2025-08-11 09:38:50 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540078790 https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540078881 reward the process more over than the final answer

]]> 2025-08-11 09:38:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540078881 https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540079186 Online judges with special test cases which are not specified in the question.

]]> 2025-08-11 09:39:41 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540079186 https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540079590 Make students do peer-grading. i dont think students want to grade AI generated work either

]]> 2025-08-11 09:40:17 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540079590 https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540079624 We have to drill into them that "You must always check the answer" and "Garbage In Garbage Out"

]]> 2025-08-11 09:40:21 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540079624 https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540079695 Go for GenAI detox sessions go back to code from scratch or learn the fundamental mathematical concepts

]]> 2025-08-11 09:40:30 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540079695 giyeonbang https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540079775 Have another group fact-check to collect instances where AI causes hallucinations.

]]> 2025-08-11 09:40:40 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540079775 https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540080597 Consider competency based assessment like what Skillsfuture is advocating. Learners have to exhibit (a) mindset change, (b) knowledge acquisition and (c) skills application (and transfer). Learning outcomes go beyond understanding and are actually measurable (using ABCD or SMART). This provides more systematic scaffolding which relates to personal experiences and is more difficult to have AI to get 'right'.

]]> 2025-08-11 09:42:00 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540080597 https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540081042 What yo use to fact check - another AI chatbot?

]]> 2025-08-11 09:42:51 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540081042 giyeonbang https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540081088 "Unplugged" activities that involve problem solving without using a computer help students recognize that learning involves automating retrieval.

]]> 2025-08-11 09:42:53 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540081088 https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540081753 I want to troll students by including hidden white text in my homework question image so that the LLM will give the wrong answer.

]]> 2025-08-11 09:44:01 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540081753 https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540083460 When all the code they submit is very well commented, but when asked to explain in class, they fumble.

]]> 2025-08-11 09:48:28 UTC https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540083460 https://padlet.com/pyconsg/roundtable/wish/3540087683 the assignment shouldnt be so easily completed by AI to begin with 😬


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